The Iola register., 1887-01-21

felt this criticism,- the more keen.
~ because it was, in our opinion, al.
together uncalled for and uDjust,-and
doubtless said as much to q few friends.
We never said that ''great pressure
was being brought to bear" upon US
in the sense of an attempt to coerce OF
dictate.
is 1t not true that two or three republican,
and Ewing g friends have taken every opportu
nifty to talk to You in favor of Ewing ant
against Benton?
1t Is not.
Did You not understand that certain promin.
ent republicans and supporters of Ewing wer,
complaining of your action In reference to Ew.
Ing, and did you not publish the column refer.
red to to pacify them2
10 the first part ofthe question, yes
to the last part. no. We are not in the
habit of writing articles to "pacifyn
people. The Democrat first assumes
that all the republicans of the county
are up in arms against the REGISTER
and then assumes that We lie awake
nights worrying over it. He is as far
wrong in one assumption as i'm the
other.
Did not republican wait upon you and ask
you to contribute something to assist Ewing in
the contest?
Did you not contribute or agree to /?
DID You not contribute because you were
afraid to refuse?
We have never been asked to do 80
nor have we contributed a dollar or
any fraction or multiple thereof for the
purpose mentioned.
court to find in BentOn's favOri
Don't you think this court should have done
so?
Have You not been pretending to think the
other way?
you knew were complaining Of your course9
We expected the contest to result as
it did for the simple reason that we
did not believe the laws of this State
provided for the throwing out of split
tickets. We have expressed this opin-
ion freely and have never "pretended"
to have any other.
Was not the promise Of the county printing .
portion of the consideration for your defense of
Ewing and the county commissioners in their
attempt to defeat the will Of the people9
No. We never attempted to exact
from any one or all of the commission.
ers a promise of any kind regarding
the disposition of the county printing,
and not one of them had the least idea
what comment the REGISTER would
have to make on their action as a can.
vassing board until he took the paper
from his box in the post office. The
question is an insult, not only to us,
but even more to Messrs. Henderson
md Ross, for it accuses them directly
If the most fragrant and corrupt viola
ion OF their oath of office,-an ACCUSE
ion the editor of the Democrat would
hot dare to make to their face. This
question, as well as a good many others
Il the foregoing, assumes that the edi.
or OF the REGISTER is utterly merce-
lary, that he is entirely devoid of prin.
iple, that he has no mind or will oil !
lis own, that every article that ap-l
'ears in his paper is dictated by out :
ide parties, that all his utterances are
he result either of promises of patron. 1
&c or threats of its withdrawal:-as.| f
1mptions 80 utterly unfounded in fact =
to compel the conclusion that the
ne who makes them draws the sup. !,
estions from the contemplation of his u
Wn motives and practices. The ques- cl
ons were evidently inspired by the u
that he who asks them =.
ould have found them hard to ans.
er had he been in our place for the ~
ut six months. Judging US by him. v
II 1t is not surprising that he has
md US to be both q fool and q knave. M
fyou can stand up before the people and say 20 20
10" to all the above questions, we assure co
l that we will have 1.-THE decency to admit 0u
t we have been Mistaken AZ
We await the admission